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Good luck on this one, your over do. If you do not have a long enough tail on the connector to work with get a short RedMere to sacrifice, and maybe get one for just practice as this could be a one shot deal.

Ick. Does the cable move at all? If so, you can use it as a pull string to pull a new cable through. But if the replacement HDMI cable can't be pulled through due to the connector size (likely), pulling a cat6 cable and using an HDBaseT solution instead is probably your solution. If you've got any cat6 runs to that location, use that.

The Redmere cable has active components to re-equalize the signal at the TV end. The cable construction is different than a 'normal' HDMI cable. So I think your chances of success are low, but certainly nothing to lose by trying. See this app note about the Redmere solution which might give you some useful info. I just grabbed one of their notes dealing with HDMI products - the cable may have a different model chip in their product line, but the info should be valid regardless:

Be aware that any fix will be less than perfect, regardless of what the guy in the link said. It may yield a flawless picture today, but not work well in the future when you bump up the bit rate. A TDR will be able to pinpoint exactly where the splice was made when done by a pro, let alone a noob.

You are better off in the long run pulling a new cable or using the existing Cat 6 with an extender, preferably HDBaseT.

Be aware that any fix will be less than perfect, regardless of what the guy in the link said. It may yield a flawless picture today, but not work well in the future when you bump up the bit rate. A TDR will be able to pinpoint exactly where the splice was made when done by a pro, let alone a noob.

You are better off in the long run pulling a new cable or using the existing Cat 6 with an extender, preferably HDBaseT.

+1

And if you splice incorrectly, you could damage a connected component. I've read some horror stories that are unfortunately true including smoke coming out of the HDMI connector on the component.

Alright everyone. I decided to give the repair a shot. Here's the results on a 60 foot Redmere HDMI cable. took a while but It works beautifully!!!! I wrapped some shield between each one using foil and then electric tape.

I would love to see what you did to the impedance at that point in the cable. Don't suppose you have access to a TDR?

Holy !@#$

I think you could get away with a splice if done carefully, that is keeping the pair untwist to a half inch, use a 1/8in solder splice and keep the whole thing tight with an overall shrink boot. That would probably work for most systems.